This Cuckoo Flew Right Into a Window

This excerpt comes courtesy of Gay and Right. One of the all-time great lines I have ever heard is in bold. I wonder (not really) how the socialist Trudeau boys (I forget which one) would feel about this.

The passage italicized is from a book by Ronald Radosh called Commies.

In the 70s, Radosh and a group of lefties go to Cuba for one-month long visit, and they go visit a mental hospital:

As the tour progressed, we couldn't help but notice the obvious glazed and drugged-out expression on the faces of most of the patients. Clearly they had been given massive does of tranquilizers, but when we asked the doctor in charge about it, we heard an even more shocking answer. "We are proud," he told us, "that in our institution, we have a larger proportion of hospital inmates who have been lobotomized than any other mental hospital in the world." Lobotomy, he assured us, did wonders for their behavior and state of well-being. Indeed, he told us that a huge percentage of those incarcerated were in fact recipients of these lobotomies.

We were flabbergasted, particularly a young man named Larry, a radical therapist who taught at a New Jersey college. "This stinks!" Larry screamed to our group as we got back on our bus. "Lobotomy is a horror. We must do something to stop this. It's exactly what we're working against at home." Castro loyalist Suzanne Ross glared at Larry, shot us all a contemptuous look, and said harshly, "We have to understand that there are differences between capitalist lobotomies and socialist lobotomies."





Classic.